Sounds cool....but sketchy, and potentially dangerous. Why do it? for fun?
Nice to hear your logging stories. I do more logging (around houses) than most certified arborists, but of course on a much smaller scale than wood lot logging. Sometimes it's a couple months between logging jobs.
I may get some cool video in the next few weeks. There's a 140 foot fir that we can drop in 2-3 pieces......onto a house....We can shoot video from up in a nearby tree.
I didnt take the time to scale the trees , but there could be 5000-6000 bf in three firs. All we have to do is drop and buck, and bring in a self loader. Fir is bringing $500-700mbf. There's a couple smaller red cedar, which is paying $1100 for short logs, and $1325 for logs over 32 feet. Customer is a way cool 80 yr old Korean who served in the war. He'll let us cut anything we want and keep the proceeds...he's selling the lot and 27 homes are going in.
I'll have to dig up the video of me dropping the top and second section of a smaller fir (only 110 foot or so) onto a shed...and screaming "courtesy of Barnett Building Demolition" But the shed was dinky.
The only beech we have out here are awesome city trees....one of my favorite trees is the copper beech. I climbed a 115 footer for fun a while back. It is just under 6 feet dbh, and our state champ.
Nice to hear your logging stories. I do more logging (around houses) than most certified arborists, but of course on a much smaller scale than wood lot logging. Sometimes it's a couple months between logging jobs.
I may get some cool video in the next few weeks. There's a 140 foot fir that we can drop in 2-3 pieces......onto a house....We can shoot video from up in a nearby tree.
I didnt take the time to scale the trees , but there could be 5000-6000 bf in three firs. All we have to do is drop and buck, and bring in a self loader. Fir is bringing $500-700mbf. There's a couple smaller red cedar, which is paying $1100 for short logs, and $1325 for logs over 32 feet. Customer is a way cool 80 yr old Korean who served in the war. He'll let us cut anything we want and keep the proceeds...he's selling the lot and 27 homes are going in.
I'll have to dig up the video of me dropping the top and second section of a smaller fir (only 110 foot or so) onto a shed...and screaming "courtesy of Barnett Building Demolition" But the shed was dinky.
The only beech we have out here are awesome city trees....one of my favorite trees is the copper beech. I climbed a 115 footer for fun a while back. It is just under 6 feet dbh, and our state champ.
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